Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753577Ab1EJKyZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2011 06:54:25 -0400 Received: from mail-pv0-f174.google.com ([74.125.83.174]:38139 "EHLO mail-pv0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750703Ab1EJKyY (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2011 06:54:24 -0400 Message-ID: <0B813DC0439B438BBB2B66A88B1A5F7F@subhasishg> From: "Subhasish Ghosh" To: "Nori, Sekhar" , "Greg KH" Cc: "Greg KH" , , , "Watkins, Melissa" , , "Andrew Morton" , "Randy Dunlap" , "open list" References: <1303474109-6212-1-git-send-email-subhasish@mistralsolutions.com> <1303474109-6212-9-git-send-email-subhasish@mistralsolutions.com> <20110425212056.GA29313@kroah.com> <20110426124519.GC5977@suse.de> <35F38DB5B5C4408EA80AF0DB8A6FA178@subhasishg> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 08/11] tty: add pruss SUART driver Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 16:24:35 +0530 Organization: Mistral Solutions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 722 Lines: 19 >> >> >>The driver should probably just get sram >> >> space through platform data so that it doesn't depend on the >> >> platform specific sram allocation function. >> >> Are you suggesting that I go back to that implementation. > > No, the platform code should use the SRAM allocator and > pass on the allocated memory to the driver. > Say, if the driver is loaded as a module. If I allocate the sram in the platform code, how to I free it when the driver is unloaded. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/